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emdiesse · Apr 23rd, 2007, 5:55 PM

What benifits are there to OOIS when using inheritance?

All I can think of is the fact that it will mean less duplicated code.

Thanks

Infinite Recursion · Apr 24th, 2007, 10:45 AM

One benefit is not so much as eliminating duplicated code as it is a reduction in effort.

If you already have a class Person, then you can spin off a class Student, class Employee, etc all of which inherits properties from Person like name, age, etc.

Apr 23rd, 2007, 5:55 PM	#1
emdiesse Programmer Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Hampshire Posts: 56 Rep Power: 5	Inheritance and Object-Oriented Information Systems What benifits are there to OOIS when using inheritance? All I can think of is the fact that it will mean less duplicated code. Thanks

Apr 24th, 2007, 10:45 AM	#2
Infinite Recursion Programming Guru Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: United States Posts: 3,466 Rep Power: 8	One benefit is not so much as eliminating duplicated code as it is a reduction in effort. If you already have a class Person, then you can spin off a class Student, class Employee, etc all of which inherits properties from Person like name, age, etc. __________________ http://jasonpowers.net "There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root."

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